Poetry Quote by Naomi Shihab Nye — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“Anyone who says, “Here’s my address,”

“Poetry [is] more necessary than ever as a fire to light our tongues.”

“Maybe if we re-invent whatever our lives give us we find poems.”

“I'm like the weather, never really can predict when this rain cloud's gonna burst; when it's the high or it's the low, when you might need a light jacket.”

“Kindness”

“Apparently people commonly died when their loved ones were out of the room. Bathroom break. Quick trip down to the cafeteria for a grilled cheese. It was easier to die if you didn't have family members to worry about at that exact moment.”

“I am ashamed of my century, but I have to smile.”

“Go then, O my inseperable, this once more,”

“Some say the world will end in fire,”

“If poets often commit suicide, it is not because their poems are bad but because they are good. Whoever heard of a bad poet committing suicide? The reader is only a little better off. The exhilaration of a good poem lasts twenty minutes, an hour at most.”

“the phantom of the man-who-would-understand,”

“Come windless invader”